I know it's a short post, but if it reduces your frustration it was worth it. These instructions should become irrelevant as Gentoo continues to support Eclipse and makes newer version available through portage.

Just wanted to say thanks for the HOWTO - I used the "seden" overlay to get eclipse, but apart from that followed your guide with little drama. I did run into an issue when first installing the ADT tools, but added the appropriate (Indigo) eclipse software repository to get past the ADT errors._________________We used to have hominid cousins that were vegetarian. The palæontological record suggests that our ancestors killed them and ate them.

Thanks so much, this should really be on top._________________" ... and the Vogon will do things to you that you wish you'd never been born, or, if you're a clearer minded thinker, that the Vogon had never been born."

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The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by dev-util/eclipse-sdk (argument)
# /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> (18 Jul 2012)
# Unmaintained, multiple vulnarabilities. #351626
# A more recent source build maintained by the community is available in the
# seden overlay. A more recent binary is available in the java-overlay.
=dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.5.1-r1
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It's hard thinking, now.
Anybody cut my mileage shorter somewhat, I can't figure out all this yet...
Yeah, upon reading the notice a few times, ghaith, you be apprentice, I go back to noob. lol ...

I know it's a short post, but if it reduces your frustration it was worth it. These instructions should become irrelevant as Gentoo continues to support Eclipse and makes newer version available through portage.

I did follow these steps, but I received the error message:

Code:

aapt: cannot execute binary file

when I start a new Android Project in the Eclipse.
It seems that some libraries are required on amd64-basd system, but I don't know what they are.